DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

BAYERO UNIVERSITY, KANO – NIGERIA

 

AN APPRAISAL

MAL. M. M YUSIF VERSUS 2008/09 POL. SCIENCE GRADUATES

The unanimous echo from this class is an expression of feeling good! It is a great day to celebrate. The day we eat, drink and rejoice to mark a fantastic departure. The day we are preparing the way to sitting prette in the host seat. Today, no more rascals.

Sir, the experience we gained in the course of our stay with you is a clear reflection of the popular saying that:

'He who laughs last laughs best'

It is a drastic transition from a conflictual, 'horrible, nasty and pessimistic relationship to a more 'Joyful; humorous; curious' and cordial rapport. Sir, the enthusiasm is generated from the fact that, despite the fact that we hated you as a horrendous patterned-note agitator before, today;

We hail you like our hero

We hug you like our Lover

We humour you like our master, and

We horse you like our pride.

Of course yes, You are absolutely all the above and we have to hail you, hug you, humour you and jolly with you.

Sir, it is now obvious that, you can feel it in your bones that through the moral and intellectual training you indulged us into, we the former indifferent, palatable and palpable pushovers have now palliated.

To face it critically, in spite of all these and more, if a stranger ask me 'who is M.M. Yusuf? I will say:

"He is a lecturer who accepts in public what he accepts in secret. A lecturer who looks at the lots of his students with the eyes of compatriots not with the eyes of the privileged few. Yes he is a lecturer with a vision. A lecturer who has fire in his belly but humanity in his heart. Fire in his belly because he takes unpleasant but necessary decision; and humanity in his heart because in taking such decision; and humanity in his heart in taking such decision, he tempers it with mercy. In fact, he is one of the renowned creative lecturers in the university and he is able to think even the unthinkable including the post post-modern era. Really, he is self-esteemed".

Sir, we are glad to let you know that portrait you until the end of our academic stay with you has been deeply stamped in our hearts and mind. We humbly request your pleasure to pardon the past, view us with sympathy and appreciation, record your experience about us with your blue not red biro. We are your successors. Sir, I am not hyperbolic to say that, with time, your name and/or those you train would be written in the World Book of Records. You deserve it.

To sum it up, we must pray extra hard for God to further longer your life to see your successors amongst us ripping what you sow. We also pray for God to Crown our efforts with successes and achievements. God bless BUK, God Bless you my colleagues.

Thank you Mallam

Written by

Aliyu Isa Idris